Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Day 6: Ten Facts About My Hometown, Jakarta

1. I was gonna complain about the ridiculously massive traffic jam, but to think of it again, it is actually something that’s quite inevitable when you’re living in a city of 660ish square kilometres with another 9ish million people.

2. People feel insecure all the time due to the high criminal rates.

3. Beggars are everywhere. Sometimes they even go door to door. Also buskers.

4. In this city, the police are the real thieves. You know what I mean. If you don’t, ask. Or whatever.

5. Goin home from work and suddenly it starts to rain endless rain? Consider yourself sleeping on the street tonight. Rain and traffic are quite the deal package here.

6. There are a lot of malls and shopping centre. Even in my neighbourhood, two giant hypermarket standing just a few metres away. In the middle, standing a huge apartment building packed with ANOTHER HYPERMARKET and a few restaurants. Totally unnecessary. The gov should build more sports centre instead. At least if we’re going down to bottomless destruction, we can do it with chocolate abs on.

7. It rains in June and sometimes it’s sizzling hot in December. Talk about global warming.

8. You know you’re in Jakarta too long when you have at least gone once to Java Jazz even if you don’t like Jazz.

9. Everybody seems to have a Blackberry. Or someone in their family does. Either that, or they have two cellphones, GSM and CDMA. The GSM might be Blackberry though. Maybe it’s just a matter of time til they create Blackberry CDMA.

10. All the teenagers have at least one legging. True story. Haha.

Godspeed.

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